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Article: Mercantilist Economics.
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- Southern Economic Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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There are fundamental differences between most economists, general historians, and economic historians. Many general economic historians and "traditional" economic historians - there really is not much difference - get apoplectic about bringing order to history. They take refuge in "historical-sociological" approach wherein all motives are given more or less weight in interpreting doctrinal and institutional change. Some "historians of economic thought" profess the same gestalt. This volume contains merely one of the latest attempts to defend chaos and pointlessness in the interpretation of an historical epoch. At a purchase price of about 30 cents a page, it is decidedly ...
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